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Article courtesy of Priority Tire.
- With Thanksgiving opening the holiday travel season, Battle Creek is named the most dangerous area of Michigan to drive in winter, with an average of 3.36 road deaths per 100,000 residents every winter, the highest rate of any metropolitan area in the state.
- Ann Arbor is the safest area to drive during the winter, with an average of 1.55 deaths per 100,000 residents, less than half of Battle Creek’s rate.
- Thanksgiving drivers are being warned to take care, as 1,587 people died on the roads of the 15 metropolitan areas based in Michigan across the winters of 2014 to 2023, according to federal crash records from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
- AAA forecast a record 81.8 million Americans would travel at least 50 miles from home over Thanksgiving last year, with at least 73 million going by car.
As millions of Americans prepare to hit the road for Thanksgiving, new research has revealed the most dangerous areas of Michigan for drivers in winter, with Battle Creek found to be the most dangerous metropolitan area in the state.
The study, conducted by online tire shop Priority Tire, analyzed ten years of fatal crash records held by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and compared them against Census Bureau population figures. It found which metropolitan areas see the highest rate of road deaths per resident during the winter months…